Principal Product Manager, Ecosystem

About Skylo

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs.

Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3

GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT.

This role is located in Mountain View, CA where we are onsite a minimum of 3 days a week in office.

Skylo is looking for a Principal Product Manager to define the commercial strategy and adoption path for our device ecosystem. You will sit at the intersection of Skylo’s engineering and the global hardware landscape - spanning chipsets, OEMs, and OS providers. Your mandate is to translate complex hardware capabilities into a scalable, high-quality "Skylo Certified" device portfolio that delivers a seamless user experience.

• Define and maintain clarity on which hardware partners (Chipsets, Modules, OEMs) Skylo prioritizes and why. You will sequence integrations based on customer reach and technical feasibility, ensuring we invest engineering resources in the ecosystems that yield the highest market volume.
• Move beyond "certification" to "service definition." You will explicitly frame the problem of device performance—defining the acceptance criteria for what constitutes a market-ready "Skylo Certified" product.
• Ensure major ecosystem decisions—such as how strictly to enforce RF standards versus accelerating time-to-market—are explicit and documented. You will own the "No-Go" decisions when hardware fails to meet the success criteria required for a viable service.
• Integrate perspectives that are "not in the room" during technical sprints. You will represent the voice of the OS provider, the OEM’s timeline, and the end-user’s UX needs into a single, actionable product view for the engineering teams.
• Bridge the gap between agile software cycles and long-lead hardware manufacturing. You will maintain alignment between Skylo’s feature roadmap and the rigid release schedules of Tier-1 OEMs and Chipset makers, ensuring adoption of the right 3gpp standard features to drive new Skylo services.
• Close the loop between field issues and certification standards. You will analyze post-launch data (e.g., specific device failure rates) to continuously update our "Bar for Quality," preventing future ecosystem partners from repeating past failures.

• 15+ years of related experience in product management, wireless systems engineering, or ecosystem engagements (or 12+ years with a Master’s degree).
• Experience defining product requirements for hardware/software integrated systems. You understand that "the product" isn't just the code, but the entire user experience on the device.
• A proven track record of aligning external partners (Chipsets, Modules, OEMs) around a shared product vision, influencing their roadmaps to support your service goals.
• Deep understanding of the mobile wireless stack (RF, Modem, OS like Android), used to define acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• The ability to translate technical metrics (e.g., RF sensitivity) into user-facing value propositions (e.g., "reliable coverage"), and the confidence to block products that don't meet that bar.
• Good understanding of 3gpp standards & standard device certification challenges
• Experience deciding which partners to integrate and when, balancing immediate commercial pressure with long-term ecosystem health.

With employees working across three…